[Python-Dev] Continuing 2.x (original) (raw)

Tres Seaver tseaver at palladion.com
Mon Nov 8 17:15:01 CET 2010

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On 11/08/2010 04:42 AM, Lennart Regebro wrote:

2010/10/28 Kristján Valur Jónsson <kristjan at ccpgames.com>:

Hello all.

So, python 2.7 is in bugfix only mode. ‘trunk’ is off limit. So, where does one make improvements to the distinguished, and still very much alive, 2.x series of Python? The answer would seem to be “one doesn’t”. But must it be that way? Except for making releases that start backporting Python 3 features and breaking backwards compatibility gradually (which may or may not be a good idea) I don't see the point. There isn't much to do when it comes to improving the language, and there is a moratorium anyway. Improvements in the standard library can be more easily done in external libraries anyway, and then you can release the improved libraries for everything from Python 2.4 and forwards if you like. So it can be done, but the question is "Why?"

The OP has existing patches to contribute which the core python-dev team consider "not-a-bugfix", and hence not acceptable for the 2.7 branch.

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